भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 112, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 112
- But what they thus asked for as a boon proved to be an inexorable
curse for them. After winning the final battle, when the Muslim rushed
violently, like a stormy wind throughout Sindh, they went on beheading
these Buddhists even more ruthlessly than they did the Vedic Hindus. For,
the Vedic Hindus were fighting in groups or individually at every place and
so they struck at least a little awe and terror in the minds of the Muslims.
But as there was no armed opposition in Buddhist vihars and Buddhist
localities, the Muslims cut them down as easily as they would cut
vegetable. Only those of the Buddhists who took to the Muslim faith were
spared, while all their vihars throughout Sindh and the innumerale shrines
in them were knocked down, and hammered to pieces; for the Muslims
hated these ‘Buddhparastis’—these shrine-worshippers. - The very word, “Buddhaparasta”, which found its way into the
Islamic tongue, is itself a corrupt form of the original Sanskrit word of the
Buddhists, “Buddhaparsata”. The Muslims began to call the shrine-
worshippers “Buddhaparashta” because on their way to India, they first
found such numerous shrines nowhere but in the Buddhist vihars. To
annihilate such shrine-worshippers was for the Muslims, a sort of religious
commandment.
Buddhist Ahimsa and Muslim Himsa - This is now the place where the question that we have discussed at
length in Chapter II (Paras 152 to 159) of this book, about the downfall of
Buddhism in India should be chronologically concluded. By the year A.D.
700, of which we are speaking in these pages, that is, before the Muslims
could set foot in India towards Sindh, the Buddhists all over India were fast
diminishing in numbers and dwindling into non-existence as is already
shown in previous chapters. The successful theoretical refutation of the
Buddhist philosophy and religious tenet by the stalwart Vedic theologians
and ‘pandits’ is not the only cause of the total extinction of the Buddhists in
India; many other social and political events also had a fair share in this
momentous task. Of them only those, which have not received the proper
attention from the historians so far, or which have not been given enough
prominence they really deserve, will be conspicuously referred to at their
proper places in these brief concluding remarks.
The first cause: the Buddhists’ High Treason - We have already dwelt at length on this collective high treason of the
Buddhists in India against their nation in Ch. II Paras 152 to 159; 182-209,